UPDATE: Mayoral recall petition paperwork rejected by City Clerk

7:58 PM,
Apr. 25, 2013

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For the second time in as many months, efforts by a group seeking to recall Mayor Joe Gunter have been thwarted by technical inconsistencies in the way the recall paperwork was submitted to the City Clerk's office.

City Clerk Patty Barajas late Thursday afternoon rejected the group's paperwork because it violated parts of the state Elections Code by having consistent wording.

In a letter to recall leader Juvenal Ibarra, Barajas first said that the group's proof of publication (an advertisement taken out in Monterey County Weekly) "substantially complies" with the state elections code ...